====== The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ====== //This page is about the franchise as a whole. For the in-universe book, see [[The Guide]]. For individual iterations of the franchise with the same title, see [[the_hitchhiker_s_guide_to_the_galaxy#installments|installments]] below.// **The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy** is a multimedia franchise created by [[Douglas Adams]]. It originated as a [[radio|radio series]] first broadcast on BBC Radio in 1978. It went on to be adapted into several formats, each with interlinked but independent continuities. ===== Installments ===== ====Radio==== - [[Primary Phase]] [1978] - [[Secondary Phase]] [1978,1980] - [[Tertiary Phase]] [2004] - [[Quandary Phase]] [2005] - [[Quintessential Phase]] [2005] - [[Hexagonal Phase]] [2018] ====Novels==== - [[the_hitchhiker_s_guide_to_the_galaxy_novel|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] [1979] - [[The Restaurant at the End of the Universe]] [1980] - [[Life, the Universe, and Everything]] [1982] - [[So Long and Thanks for All the Fish]] [1984] - [[Mostly Harmless]] [1991] A sixth book, [[And Another Thing...]] was written by [[Eoin Colfer]] and published in 2009 on the 30th anniversary of the original novel. ====Serialised Television==== * [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)]] - BBC Television Series * ABC Television Series - Unreleased [1980's] * Hulu Series - Unreleased [in production hell] ====Film==== * [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)]] * Ivan Reitman Film Treatment - Unproduced film script [1987] ====Interactive Media==== * [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (infocom)]] [1984] * [[Starship Titanic]] * Milliway's - Unreleased Infocom sequel * PC Platformer - Unreleased [early 2000s] * Film Tie-In Adventure Game | Vogon Planet Destructor ====Miscellaneous==== * [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (comics)]] - DC Comics adaptation of the first 3 novels [1991-1993] * [[Stage|Various Stage Shows]] * [[Towels]]